Heliotrope gem: Anguipes

PP-ID:

PP-5578

Classification:

gem, magical

Collection ID:

DE_Kassel-HKH_Ge 136

Collection:

Kassel, Antikensammlung, Hessen Kassel Heritage

Collection Inventory:

Ge 136

Reference Numbers:

Capello 1702, no. 57; AGD III, no. Kassel 136

Former Collections:

Patin, Charles (Paris, 1633 – Padua, 1693); Capello, Antonio (Venice, 1652–1729); Karl, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel (Kassel, 1654–1730)

Material:

jasper, green and red

Dimensions:

14.1 × 17.7 × 3.2 mm

Iconography:

Anguipes, cock-headed; armour; whip; shield, inscribed

Divine Names & Voces:

vocales

Dark green jasper with red spots (heliotrope). Upright oval, both faces flat, trapezoid section. (Shape 8). Chipped along the edges, lower right segment broken off and missing.

Side A: Frontal view of a cock-headed Anguipes in armour, head to right. Right hand raised high and holding a whip, left hand hidden behind a round shield, inscribed in four lines: ιαη|ιεηι|ουωιη|υηω → vocales.
Side B: Plain.

Selected bibliography
• Capello 1702 >>, pl. 10, no. 57 (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Montfaucon 1719 >>, vol. 2,2, 359, pl. 146H (see Antiquitatum Thesaurus for details).
• Zazoff, AGD III >>, 229, no. 136.

Further resources on PP-5578
• Hessen Kassel Heritage Online
• Antiquitatum Thesaurus